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Yvette

The Vatican on Saturday strongly condemned media coverage of a report that is said to contain information about the influence of a gay network and financial mismanagement within the Vatican, and which may have triggered Pope Benedict’s decision to resign. But in his statement, a spokesman for the Vatican did not deny the report’s existence or dispute the description of its findings.
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Lombardi also questioned the moral authority of the media. “Those who present themselves as judges, making heavy moral judgments, do not, in truth, have any authority to do so,” he said. “Those who consider money, sex and power before all else and are used to reading diverse realities from these perspectives, are unable to see anything else.”

While speaking out strongly against the tone of the media coverage, Lombardi did not confirm or deny the existence of the 300 page report by the cardinals or its contents. He did not discuss the effect the report had on Pope Benedict’s decision to resign.

There is also threats of the Pope’s arrest, the Rhode Island issue and Los Angeles, as well as stories that people will occupy Roman Catholic churches at Easter demanding compensation for the priests’ sex offences.

Yvette

Nice to see that the Ministry of Justice has post-humously cleared Greg King on any wrong-doing. Given that the Dom-Post had chased him for comment on the allegations on the morning that he disappeared, I wonder how they are feeling at the news. There was nothing wrong with seeking comment in itself, but the denials that they had really made them look bad…

Yvette

Banks faces legal threat
Act leader accused of finance law breach
A judge is considering whether Act Party leader John Banks should face charges this month for allegedly misleading investors.
The threat hung over Banks’ head as he took the podium at yesterday’s annual party conference.
Court papers supplied to the Herald on Sunday allege that because Banks was an executive director of finance firm Huljich Wealth Management, he has absolute liability for false statements in the company prospectus
– http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10867333

After Penny Bright’s actions have so successfully cleared John Banks of wrong-doing in those organisations she has raised this matter with –the Police, the Serious Fraud Office, the Securities Commission and Parliament, through a petition to the House of Representatives –
why is a Wellington court, case brought by retired Wellington accountant Graham McCready, still allowed to bugger around with this?
Have they nothing else to hear?

UglyTruth

There is also threats of the Pope’s arrest, the Rhode Island issue and Los Angeles, as well as stories that people will occupy Roman Catholic churches at Easter demanding compensation for the priests’ sex offences.

Another theory is that proof exists that gospel of Barnabus is an original text. Biblical scholars have generally maintained that it is a forgery, but if proven to be legitimate then it adds to the number of early texts which contradict the Christian story of the crucifixion.

Left Right and Centre

flufftastic: Sunday Sundaes

I’m at BK 7:10am-9:10am. Five soft serve helpings in my cup. I get five because the bloke I get is so generous each time.

Fat white people this morning including my personal favourites a fat as anything mother and about four white kids ranging in age from 1-9. Two of the boys were just fucking fat. Their faces were like mini Gerry Brownlee style and yet somehow even more mis-shapen than him. It was grotesque to say the least. Credit where cridt’s due… the kids could run for at least ten metres.

That’s a great breakfast for the kids eh? Fast food on a Sunday morning. And then one fat kid was sent up with more cash for more goodies. Just because you are a fat moron…. don’t turn your young boys into fat slobs. One boy was normal looking… the baby/ toddler? Don’t know.

And then… another really fat ugly old white woman and another porky pig fat male child. You shouldn’t have hanging neck flab at seven years of age… whoa… fuck me…

Saw a couple of other fat white adults there…. and then finally some humanoid shaped white people came through…. so the ratio shifted to about 50/50 fat fucks:ok shape. One fella was pregnant but the rest of him was ok.

You know the ones where their fuckin *arms* are fat? Like… even the forearms have given up and started expanding like balloons? Yeah…

Oh well… it’s not rocket surgery… finding fat people in their natural habitat. Disgusting retards. And they do look like idiotic retards.

By my fifth soft serve I was only going through the motions. I wanted to break-up with my dessert cup. I think it’s time I saw other food groups. I took some home-made biscuits for the BK crew and some for the bread deliverer… but I missed the latter so BK got his biscuits too. Good fun.

Left Right and Centre

flufftastic:

In town… dancing right next to where I’ve put my coat down. Turn around… and some fuckwit has put it on and sitting down in it.

Ripped my coat off this prick’s back and he got thrown out. Who are these people? You’re asking for a beating when you touch things that aint yours. I tried to make that as melodramatic as I could for the muppet… try to get the message across that it’s not actually ok at all to do that.

Left Right and Centre

lrc -but we all know it is their “genes”, so completely out of their control, so not their fault. Somehow it is BKs fault and their advertising. Advertising must activate the genes or something.

I see that all the time- fat fuck parents create fat fuck kids. It’s really sad. The fat parents that do that to their kids are braindead. I wouldn’t even take my kids to those shitholes… if I had kids. I only go for the soft serve once a week on Sunday and even that’s got out of hand. I’m meant to stick to one-two only and without the massive toppings I add on.

Left Right and Centre

for enthusiastic do you say en*foo*siastic or en*the-u*siastic?

Same for Muesli. Some kiwis pronouce the word as ‘moosli’ whereas I make it ‘*meu*esli.

I hear some very strange pronunciations on talkback. One very intelligent sounding man was saying feral as ‘ferile’ with a stronger emphasis on the second syllable. The host then said it as I would as a sort of ‘ferul’ emphasis more on the first syllable.

Dreadful kiwi speak: Listen to the work ‘drown’ next time spoken by a broad kiwi accent. It comes out something like dra-ee-ow-urn. Cultural cringe or own the uniqueness with pride?

The fella they talk to when anything Pike River mine comes on the news… I have to turn the volume off. Oi’d loike thum toe roi-opun thoir invoistigoition unto thar Poike Roiver Moine deesarstar. I have to turn quite a few broad accents off. Horrible sounding. If only everyone could speak as nicely as the Tongan royal family.

Longknives

My pet hate is thickos that don’t know the bloody difference between ‘Lose’ and ‘Loose’.
I guess that’s what happens in a country where you let Secondary School kids answer exams in ‘Txt speak’….
(God help us if we mispronounce a Maori word though…)

Harriet

kowtow#

thanks for the link to Australian ‘socialist style immigration’.

“…..Oh, by the way, somebody might like to ask the new immigration minister why, in the last few years alone, thousands of ‘asylum seekers’ have returned to their supposed ‘country of persecution’. This is another big secret the department is hoping does not become public: asylum seekers are granted Protection visas, only to travel back to Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan or Pakistan, marry their arranged brides and lodge applications for large groups of ‘family members’. And curiously, many of these asylum seekers, returning to their country of origin, do not have jobs; that is, their travel is funded by welfare payments, which they continue to collect while overseas…30’000 – 40’000 more asylum seekers may arrive before the federal election in sept….30’000 are currently waiting in Indonesia…..5 boats arrived just yesterday[sat] and I think that may be a record….”

Left Right and Centre

I was watching the Food Truck programme a bit on One. The fella Michael starts off by saying he wants to find a non-sugar alternative to L&P and cola full sugar drink. And I’m talking to the TV saying ‘mate… you’ve heard of Coke Zero, yeah?’ That’s game over right there pal. I drank three litres of Pepsi Max last night. No sugar… drink as much as you bloody want.

Is that a kids programme? The way they talk down to the viewer and the playschool soundtrack shit oh dear. The way carers talk to hard of hearing geriatrics in resthomes.

The L&P sure.. no low calorie version so far that I’ve seen… but cola/ lemonade? You’re joking, right? How incredibly stupid.

And he went to Waiheke… of course he did. Can you take me to…..a wankytown? Actually the people there seemed a cut above your average moron Stuff commenter. Even the kids could string sentences together with thoughtful coherence. Michael kept on repeating ‘give that a whirl’. Get one more fuckin kiwi as phrase ya drongo… how about ‘there- wrap ya laughin gear around that bi-arch’?

Left Right and Centre

Didn’t English at one point have lots of different spellings for words and then they became universally the same? (in their respective BE and AE forms).

And now with textspeak… it’s going back to ‘spell words however the fuck you feel like.’ Just like centuries ago. Cool.

And most of a generation have come through with atrocious English language skills and sound dreadful and ignorant.

I’m not perfect either but I care dammit… I care. I like words. Consternation is a recent word I saw in a KB post. What a great word. Pizzazz… my gift back to KB. Here… have the word pizzazz. It’s everything you always wanted in a noun.

Left Right and Centre

bc (775) Says:
February 24th, 2013 at 10:38 am

I reckon!! I actually made the same comment to the guy who poured all five of them for me. He thinks I’m off the planet.

You’re not wrong- except I’ve been running 10kms a day, lifting weights, I’ve got a strict diet of low calorie only options on a standard day and keep an obcom eye on the scales. If they start going up too much then I’ll die diet hard with a vengeance to get back down to my happy weight.

I doubt if those StayPufts have ever run 10kms in one day in their whole lives. They look just like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters. The stereotype doing it’s thing right in front of me was just too much to bear. I was trying not to crack-up too much as I watched feeding time at the zoo.

Harriet

When I lived in NZ I new that kiwis had a differant accent based around the vowels. At the time I didn’t think it too serious a problem. Afterall, all English speaking places have different accents.

Now that I have lived in Aus for 20 yrs, I would go so far as to say “some kiwis, NOW speak a form of Pidgeon English”. I’ve been back to NZ often over the years, and I do at times[not too often] have trouble understanding what some ‘young’ shop staff are saying. Americans ect would find it difficult more often I would think.

Over the last 10 yrs I have often read via ‘stuff reports’ the praising of kiwis ‘unique pronunciation of English’. These reports have come from the education dept, schools, govt depts, Maori advocates, MP’s ect ect. – like they are proud of it. I think it has only made matters worse.

It doesn’t bode well in the long run for the individuals who speak like that…as it really is a matter of lazyness more than anything else….some will not get jobs….moreso in customer service…which is the place of last resort for the under educated. Tourism is also a major source of income for NZ, and the higher the levels of professionalism, the higher that prices for services can be charged out at.

Left Right and Centre

from Harriet:

moreso in customer service…which is the place of last resort for the under educated.

There might be a lot of truth to that assertion but I meet people all the time with degrees and upwards of degrees that are working in retail. I met a bloke working in the Telecom shop in Porirua. Masters. Seven years of tertiary education. And not in some dumbarse history or English degree… a real one… chemistry and physics or something bloody hard. I’m really impressed by his qualifications and said as much. He *is* the manager I think though. He thought I’d smoked a bit too much that day. I tried to talk my way back onto his good side but it was like trying to climb back up a waterslide greased with baby oil…. hahahaha. Talk about awkward.

bc

Re: ACT party get together

If rich white men want to throw their money away into lost causes then let them I say. (Of course they could have done something useful for the country with their money like paying their employees more, but oh well)

Left Right and Centre

eszett (1,899) Says:
February 24th, 2013 at 11:16 am

hahahaha…. what are those superstars polling now man? Is it….. 0.0001%?

John Banks or some clown was saying that 5% and six seats would be good. Yeah, that would be good eh? Do you know what else would be good? If hot sexy blonde triplets in their twenties called Fellatio, Allota Vagina and Pussy Galore turned up on my doorstep looking for a good time.

eszett

Well, LRC, just ask John Ansell, he’ll probably tell you they can get 40% or so. About as probable as the triplets showing up at your doorstep.

No, wait, on second thought, the triplets are far more probable.

Anyway, it will be interesting how ACT will try and re-invent themselves in time for the next election. I doubt that National will gift them Epsom once again, especially not if they are polling below 2%.

The sole purpose meaning of Act existence right now is merely to provide one vote for the government.

Left Right and Centre

eszett (1,900)
February 24th, 2013 at 11:44 am

Yes, well- there’s a few Act voters now living within the protective confines of the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary where they can roam free from all of their natural predators. Keeping a few of them there just in case the numbers really take a nosedive. Preserve some of them for future breeding programmes if need be or it might be another tragic loss of NZ’s precious remaining biodiversity.

Left Right and Centre

Harriet

“….Anyway, it will be interesting how ACT will try and re-invent themselves in time for the next election. I doubt that National will gift them Epsom once again, especially not if they are polling below 2%….”

They don’t need to re-invent themselves as Key will just keep pissing on National voters and sending them there…or to the Conservatives.

Have you committed the act of last resort ezette – the act of disiplining an insolant child with a smack for their own future benefit – an act of love between a parent and child?

Did you use a wooden spoon….where the child can easily differentiate between that and a hand – a hand that is more often used in other acts of love….like cuddleing a child?

Left Right and Centre

Pete George (16,392)
February 24th, 2013 at 12:08 pm

All the contextual interpretive skills of a supermarket self-checkout unit.

Listen to how RH said what he was saying- said in jest.

RH also had a dry sarcastic crack at TV3. Something along the lines of ‘where are they? There they are! I know they’re on a tight budget’. He might or might not actually think what he was saying seriously- however the style was definitely one of ‘I’m having you on- not to be taken seriously’.

Manolo

A former Immigration Minister – who changed the Immigration Act to detain boat people indefinitely after a ship packed with asylum seekers was reported to be heading for New Zealand – said this week he had misgivings about allowing extended family of refugees.

Tuariki John Delamare, now an immigration consultant, warned an unchecked criminal element was entering the country and tighter screening was needed.

“If it was up to me I would institute lie detector tests.” He said there were a “significant” number of immigrants entering the country under refugee categories who were “bad people from day one”.

Reid

All the contextual interpretive skills of a supermarket self-checkout unit.

Yes I used to wonder if PG deliberately takes the piss or whether he really does believe what he writes. I concluded awhile ago it’s definitely the latter and he really doesn’t understand the conservative mindset in any way which is a shame, for him, because you can’t be a proper “Mr. Reasonable” if you can’t even understand a simple thing like that. Lefties have never been able to pull it off, they truly don’t get us and perhaps that’s Pete’s problem, he just can’t escape the vortex.

Reid, since it’s psychodiagnosis Sunday, my thesis is that pete sits on the fence on issues because he feels that to take a position something will have other’s believe he’s motivated by disapproval of the opposite case. It’s likely that he applies this yardstick to others, and therefore feels he’ll be on the receiving end of the same judgement.. so all the better to remain perpetualy postulating and avoid said judgement.

Left Right and Centre

…. an now for a quick update of the meta-analysis of home viewer surveys this week which has the median predicted last episode date of Seven Sharp moving up a week from Friday 21 June 2013 to Friday 14 June. That is all. Thank you.

Left Right and Centre

If you want a good example of someone who slips very dry, quick and witty telling sniping little smarmy comments about his interview subjects right under their noses without them always knowing it’s happened look no further than Marcus Lush doing Radiolive breakfast. That’s the art of the dry comment. It’s dry. It’s subtle. It reaches the intended subjects like a secret handshake while leaving those with no sense of humour none the wiser. It’s an intelligence test. Compared to Marcus Lush I thought that Rodney Hide’s comments were obvious in their intended nature.

I was in a club two weeks back and I accept that clubs are chock full of twats and that’s fine. I was telling one of these young fondued geniuses to fuck off…. using the words fuck off… right in his face… but I did it with a really big smile on my face. It’s amazing what you can get away with saying to people if you’re mixing the verbal content with positive and happy non-verbal signals.

Reid

Who’s naive?

You are Pete. If you really truly believe it wasn’t simply a joke, you’re a complete and utter idiot. Seriously, you are. If you were a lefty and simply trying to rark it up then it would be understandable, but you appear actually to believe Hide really wasn’t simply joking. Which makes your understanding of politics and the people in it around about the level of a particularly dim 12 year old.

HB

I have seen hundreds of NCEA papers – never seen txt speak on them.
I don’t know any teacher who would let their students write like that

We have discussed the handwriting issue at our school. Even the ‘laptop’ class has to handwrite in English and Soc Sci. They will need to write their external exams for NCEA so need to be used to writing regularly (as opposed to typing).

If you really truly believe it wasn’t simply a joke, you’re a complete and utter idiot.

Reid, if you believe it was “simply a joke”, said at one of the most media intensive occasions for Act, and Jim Hopkins re-emphasising it for Rodney to re-emphasise it, and then stirring up TV3 was “simply a joke”, then either Hide has completely forgotten about how politics and media works, or you are the idiot.

Reid

Pete, when Fat Bastard on The Spy who Shagged Me said that he likes eating babies, was he telling the truth, as you see it?

But seriously, WTF about saying something that you knew TV3 would take out of context and report deadpan on, because they’re raging screaming insane lefties, don’t you understand?

Don’t you get the whole point of not withdrawing it was so that TV3 would report it? That that was why he waved at them? Don’t you get that?

I mean fucking der Pete. You really are a moron aren’t you. I mean look at it like this, idiot.

IF it really WAS true, then do you think they’d admit it? And if they were going to “admit” it, do you seriously think they would have done it in that way?

Not that it is true, lest you misunderstand.

(It’s a shame I have to keep pointing out that it’s not true and I’m just using the hypothesis IF to make a point, isn’t it, but with you Pete, your naivity knows no bounds, so who knows what the hell you’ll take out of what I just said.)

Ok to summarise:
– NZQA has NO policy on the use of text language in exams, it is treated like using an abbreviation
– When use of language is being assessed, such as in English papers, use of text language will be penalised (as it is with the use of abbreviations)
– Text speak and abbreviations is STRONGLY DISCOURAGED
– Markers are looking for clear answers. So if you want to use text language go ahead, but given that markers are of a different generation to teenagers sitting exams, there is a pretty high change the marker won’t know what you are saying, not leaving much to mark.

So hardly an endorsement, quite the opposite in fact. If you used text language in an exam I wouldn’t be expecting a pass mark coming your way!

bc

krazykiwi @ 12.22pm

Oh enough of the faux outrage already!
Now I must of missed my invitation to the ACT party get together, so I can’t say this for sure, BUT …
Although I’m not a gambling man I’d put a decent wager on the people there being some combination of rich, white and male. I’d even go further and put a wager on the majority of people there being all three.

Not being spiteful, just pointing out the obvious!

Oh and in your last sentence, I think you have me confused for someone else. Sorry to disappoint!

bc

But back to ACT. All this chat over a party that barely registers in the polls. Goodness me!

Remember folks: ACT = John Banks.
Even if National tries to convince the good people at Epsom to vote for Banks at the next election, I very much doubt enough of them could live with themselves to allow Banks to win again.

Harriet

Government rape facilities to be built in Canada:

“Pro-family groups such as Concerned Women of America have warned that these ‘gender identity’ laws will increase the already rising incidence of bathroom attacks on women by sexual predators, who will count on using the new law as an alibi if they get caught. The government ought not risk making it easier for sexual predators to escape justice and re-offend another day.

And children of course are the biggest losers here: “If you had a 9-year old daughter, how would you feel about a man going into the bathroom after her? How is that child supposed to discern whether the man in the bathroom with her is a rapist, a peeping tom, or merely an innocent ‘transsexual’ who thinks he’s a woman trapped in a man’s body? It is unconscionable for legislators to put vulnerable, female children in such a dangerous position.

“To be clear, we’re not saying that individuals who identify as ‘transgendered’ are sexual predators. Rather, there will be an increased legal opportunity for sexual predators and peeping toms who pretend to be ‘transgendered’, to enter female bathrooms. These miscreants will count on being able to escape prosecution, if caught or suspected, by simply claiming that they’re ‘transgendered’ and they are just exercising the right to ‘express their female gender’. How can a police officer possibly know otherwise?

“Several women have been killed in the United States in bathroom attacks, and there have been numerous reports of attacks in Canada as well. Do we really want to make it easier for sexual predators to get in close quarters with vulnerable women by pretending to be transgendered?”

But these militant activists and social engineers really don’t give a rip about such ugly consequences. All they care about is thoroughly destroying society and all of its long-standing social institutions and sexual values, replacing it all with their radical social and sexual anarchy.

Indeed, the activists know that such legislation is a great way to attack Christian businesses, charities and churches as well:
“Adding the terms ‘gender identity’ and gender expression to the Act will lead to trampling of religious freedom and conscience rights. The militant activists pushing this bill are not interested in using it as a protective ‘shield’. Instead, they will use it as a ‘sword’ to target Christian and other faith-based businesses, religious institutions and charities for holding biblical beliefs on human sexuality.

“This will also invite trouble for private businesses and even religious institutions which will be compelled by the law to permit their employees to dress up in the opposite sex. Is it beyond the pale to imagine a male employee at a Christian charity filing a human rights complaint for not being allowed to dress up as a woman while at work?”

Yes, all these attempts at radical social engineering are not only about destroying a nation, but singling out Christian moral concerns, beliefs and practices. The militants have declared war on everything we hold near and dear, and will not rest until our concerns have been muzzled and eliminated.

Elaycee

ACT is merely a zombie party anyway, walking dead. Brash did in the ACT party nearly two years ago in an inept, vile and foul manner. Rodney is free to say what he likes about ACT, it’s not the same party he led. Banks is a moron, I hope he does get his beans in court, Brash too.
If Hide started a new party I’d vote for him.

thedavincimode

Reid

Depends whether Hide was dog whistling or not.

Scott it was a tactic to get news coverage. That’s all it was. – Say something outrageous in the expectation that lefty idiots, being idiots, won’t be able to tell whether or not you’re being serious, and will report it as if you meant it. Simple. And it worked. Only morons fell for it and who cares about them because they’ll never vote for ACT anyway. But those who might vote for ACT also hear about it and have a little smile to themselves, as the smug but totally ignorant and self-righteous little shits in the lefty media get all lathered up over it. I wouldn’t be surprised if Morning Report does a piece on it tomorrow morning, as well. Let’s hope so. In fact they’re probably working on it right now.

wat dabney

wat dabney

Harriet, you may well have a good point but your problem is that you have cried wolf too much. Nobody listens to you any more because you’re mad and bitter. Your ludicrous hyperbole on gay marriage showed you are someone we can safely scroll past without wasting precious seconds reading the recycled lies of some pedophile priest.

Councillor Cameron Brewer blasted Brown for “going around assuring people that he’s supposedly prudent” when the cost of his own office was increasing.

“This is not any ordinary office. This is a ratepayer-funded campaign machine and people wonder why no one’s prepared to stand against him and his army of advisers and consultants.”

[One of] Brown’s [six] spokesman Glyn Jones said in a statement the mayoral budget was set by law and his office only spent what was needed to fulfil the mayor’s leadership role get himself re-elected.

So far the office had spent 10 to 20 per cent less than budgeted each year.

“the mayoral budget was set by law”

Don’t you love the disingenuous of it and the rigorous questioning of that statement by the loyal repeaters “journalists?”

Possibly they forgot to mention that “set by law” really means: the mayor put’s it forward and then once people agree he gets a majority on it, it’s deemed by law to be set. Which means the mayor can just put forward any old thing and it will still be “set by law.”

David Garrett

PG: You really must stop getting your information from the MSM… or dare I say it, being dishonest. I was AT the ACT conference…it is completely incorrect that Hide “refused to revisit…” the jest about the poor, Maori, and unions…IN FACT the MC, sensing that the fuckers would misuse what was clearly intended as a jest, invited Hide to come back and clarify, which he duly did, and very eloquently too…

His ” well, that’s true” was clearly intended to refer to our dislike of the unions, and not the poor and Maori…as the rest of that part of the speech made quite clear.

At the very least, you are being very naive; you are probably being mischievous, and possibly even downright malicious…Mind you when you are in “party” whose conference could be held in an old telephone box I guess one can get defensive…

But back to the conference…Was that you surrounded by the bodyguard of ex SA paratroopers Russell?

UglyTruth

Possibly they forgot to mention that “set by law” really means: the mayor put’s it forward and then once people agree he gets
a majority on it, it’s deemed by law to be set. Which means the mayor can just put forward any old thing and it will still be “set by law.”

It’s similar to “passed into law”, a little word magic to give the impression that the act in question has authority.

What are the odds of people knowing what law really is when the state feeds them bullshit about it’s meaning?

David Garrett

Jeez, I thought PG was in a minority of one….then I took a look at the rest of the above comments…

How many of you loftily opining on whether Hide was making a joke (I am the first to agree it didnt come out right) were actually THERE? Because if you weren’t, seeing the bit that ran – entirely predictably – on TVNZ last night will give you no clue to the context…which was created by several sentences which came before…(I am assuming what was on TV3 was the same, perhaps with a bit more breathless outrage….)

However…when Hide looked down the TV3 cameras and said “bastards!” THAT was “just joking, but not really” IMO…but then I know the man well, and share his view of the quality of the MSM, TV3 in particular….

bc

To be honest David, I couldn’t care or less what Rodney said. He’s a bit irrelevant these days (if he was ever relevant).

I couldn’t help but notice this comment from you about United Future: “Mind you when you are in “party” whose conference could be held in an old telephone box I guess one can get defensive”.
Now that’s a bit rich when United Future is polling at 0.2% and Act is polling at 0.1% (Source: Most recent Colmar Brunton poll)
That’s a 100% more 🙂

cha

Would the resident apologists like to defend the behaviour of Cardinal Roger Mahony who when confronted with the evidence complained that because nobody told him he didn’t know that fucking around with kids wasn’t on and then when he’s called out over his appalling conduct he compares himself to his god. Fucking scum.

David Garrett

What I would like to know Pete, is from where did you get the bit about Hide “refus[ing] to revisit that”? That statement is not a matter of opinion, or interpretation, it is 100% untrue…Jim Hopkins – himself a former journo, so knowing exactly that the pricks were going to do with that comment – asked Hide to stay, explained with as much levity as he could why the joke didnt come out right, and asked Hide if he would like to come and “do that bit again”…which Hide then immediately did…

How in the name of Lucia’s deity can you get: ” he refused to revisit that” from THAT sequence of events? Come on PG, I’d really like to know….you can’t have been there, or this comment would be unnecessary…

bc: Have you ever heard of the margin of error? Perhaps some chap who is better informed than me on matters statistical can explain why your statement about relative electoral support is non-sensical…